Sibylle Ziegler
Invited speaker “PET is Wonderful”  2025

Sibylle Ziegler studied physics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. For her doctorate, she went to the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg in 1986 to conduct research on one of the first positron emission tomographs (PET) in Germany. From 2016 until June 2024, she has led preclinical research in nuclear medicine at the University Hospital of LMU Munich. Since July 2024, she is head of PET/CT research in the department of nuclear medicine at Hannover Medical School (MHH). Her research focuses on novel detectors and systems for high-resolution small animal PET, PET/MR, Total-body PET, and quantitative analysis in molecular imaging using biokinetic models and machine learning. She was president of the German Society for Medical Physics (DGMP) from 2007 to 2008. In the German Research Foundation (DFG), she was a member of the review board “FK 205-32 Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics” and spokesperson of the section “Medical Engineering” for 8 years. Sibylle Ziegler has been a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering ACATECH since 2016.